Kalusha Bwalya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kalusha Bwalya

Zambian footballer

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1963

Place of Birth: Mufulira, Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Zambia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Kalusha Bwalya

  • Kalusha Bwalya (Great Kalu) is a Zambian former international footballer.
  • He is Zambia's eighth-most capped player and third on the list of all-time top goalscorers behind Godfrey Chitalu and Alex Chola.
  • Kalusha was named African Footballer of the Year in 1988 by the magazine France Football and was nominated for the 1996 FIFA World Player of the Year where he was voted the 12th-best player in the world, the first to be nominated after playing the entire year for a non-European club. His older brother Benjamin Bwalya played professional football, and his younger brother Joel Bwalya also played for Zambia.
  • His cousin is former Cardiff City and Welsh national football team international Robert Earnshaw.
  • His career as a player, coach and president of the Football Association of Zambia is partly shown in the documentary film "Eighteam". On 20 March 2016, Kalusha lost the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) elections to a renowned businessman-turned football official Andrew Kamanga by 163 to 156 votes in what many thought was an impossible task for the challenger.In August, 2018, the world soccer governing body FIFA banned Bwalya for two years from all football-related activities at both national and international level.
  • The FIFA adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee found him guilty of having violated article 16 (Confidentiality) and article 20 (Offering and accepting gifts and other benefits) of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
  • It is alleged that Bwalya received a bribe in the form of a gift from Mohammed Bin Hammam, a Qatari official.

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